Victorian Internet,the
Bloomsbury Press Agency · Paperback · September 4, 2007
A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses ―the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.
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- Who it’s for
- A playful look at how the Victorian world clicks into the language of the Internet.
- Genres
- Technology, Victorian Britain (1837-1901), History of Technology
- Published
- Bloomsbury Press Agency, September 4, 2007
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A new paperback edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses ―the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.
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The Victorian Internet tells the colorful story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, and of the visionaries, oddballs, and eccentrics who pioneered it, from the eighteenth-century French scientist Jean-Antoine Nollet to Samuel F. B. Morse and Thomas Edison. The electric telegraph nullified distance and shrank the world quicker and further than ever before or since, and its story mirrors and predicts that of the Internet in numerous ways. Read more
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A playful look at how the Victorian world clicks into the language of the Internet.
Come here for
- playful history with a slyly modern angle
- author-led curiosity
Expect
- history threaded with science and social change
- a brisk, idea-forward read
Where it sits
| Victorian Britain (1837-1901) | 43% |
|---|---|
| History of Technology | 39% |
| Technology | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- History
- Authors
- Tom Standage
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Press Agency
- Published
- September 4, 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- History